Ep 50 WW2 Salvage Operation: Australian History
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Early in World War 2, German Raiders were laying sea mines around Australian & New Zealand coastal waters.
Here we tell the story of one ship that was sunk by those mines, and the exceptional salvage operation that was undertaken to recover precious cargo that had gone down with the ship.
(65 mins)
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